His Honor returned a favorable answer, and in'compliance, as it were, with his disposition, the Council concurred, and the Bill received the Lieutenant Governor's sanction on the 16th Dec. 1737. Before the Assembly adjourned, they requested Clarke to use his utmost endeavors to obtain his Majesty's assent to the Bill. It was sent to England early in the following year, when the Lieutenant Governor strongly recommended it to the favor of the King's Ministers, Some of the arguments in favor of the measure and its ultimate fate, are recorded in the follawing Documents, Ep.

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TRIENNIAL ELECTIONS, 1738.

Memorandum of some Grounds and Reasons to hope that his Majesty will be graciously pleased to grant his Royal Assent to the Act for ffrequent Election of Representatives lately passed in the General

Assembly of the Colony of New York.

That happy Union that is Established between the King and his People under the British Constitution, has so closely connected their Mutual Interests, that whatever tends to the advancement of the peace and prosperity of the People, it may be Humbly presumed will be a Good reason why it should meet with his Majestyes approbation and Encouragement, but it is Conceived that the passing that Law, will tend as much to Advance the Interest of his Majestyés Crown, as the welfare of His people if it be Considered that the Scituation of this Colony is in the very Heart of the British Dominions in America, that it Contains a passage from the Ocean almost all the way by water, to the most -- distant Nations of Indians, which lye Northward of the Bay of Mexico. It is near to Canada once the seat of a dangerous Enemy, and now its rival in the ffur trade, which is of so much Importance to Great Brittain that Pts in the neighborhood of a People Extremly Jealous of its Interests, and ever watchfull to seize on every Advantage for the Extension of their settlements